"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"One of the most valuable features of Nutanix is that it's easy to use. I love this solution—it's easy to maintain and update, and I think it's almost perfect."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"What's best about Nutanix Acropolis AOS is its simplicity. It's simple to install and simple to understand. The technical support and support portal for this product are both very good and very helpful."
"The maintenance software is straightforward because you do not need to do any configuration."
"The scalability is great."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"The most valuable features are the user-friendly dashboard and that we don't need to move resources manually when adding new nodes into running clusters."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"The scalability is good."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface that can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I can create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
"We did have some integration issues."
"It was not a great fit for really large databases that required high-end or lots of compute. They might already have addressed this concern around very high-end databases that require high-end compute. In the past, it wasn't a great fit for them."
"I'm sure there are a lot of things that could be improved, but I'm actually very satisfied with this product. There may be some possibilities to move the virtual server dismounting points or to move the server from one group to another, but I can't think of any special improvements or update features."
"An area for improvement would be the cyber security features."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"The price could be better."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 1st in HCI with 85 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 42 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "Serious reliability and stability across the entire system makes for ROI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Provides protection against ransomware threats with immutable snapshots, and it is well known for its scalability, ease of use, and non-disruptive upgrades". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Rackspace OpenStack, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), IBM FlashSystem, HPE Nimble Storage and Dell XtremIO.
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